The Judge's Wife

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In Isabel Allende’s short story The Judge’s Wife, she conveys the theme of being raised in an unhealthy environment has a similar negative affect on your adulthood. In The Judge’s Wife, the main character Nicolás Vidal lives a voluntarily isolated life that results in him leading a lonely existence. His mother tried her hardest to make up for their unfortunate situations. She gave him a strong name to give him purpose, however, Allende writes, “Even that princely appellation had not been enough to exorcise the fatal omens”. The name does give Nicolás Vidal some sense of caring though, proof that at least one woman Nicolás Vidal remembers his childhood as one with “not a single happy memory”(187).Melancholy beginnings transitioned Nicolás

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